you give off total energy. but for you, this... for you to sing, it is work. >> oh, absolutely. it is why so many of my contemporaries, when they start to work less, you find their voices getting weaker, because you've got to do it. and by me singing, trying to sing over a group of drinking people three times a night, it was nothing but exercise for my voice, just making it stronger and stronger and stronger. so by the time they did call, i was cool. >> hinojosa: you say that when you perform sometimes... and for those who haven't heard you, just when you're hearing you sing on a cd, it is as if your whole body is coming through. and you say that sometimes after you perform, you feel like you have actually been beat up. >> yeah, well, now, too, it's the travel of any kind. at first, i had always dreamed of being able to travel and take my band on a plane. we hate the airport. so now i'm back to, "i'll be okay if i'm in the car." i hate the car. but when you mix the traveling all day, and then getting off and doing the thing at night, if i had been doing it all of the time, it wo